A High Court dispute between the body that administers the performing rights of copyrighted music in Ireland and the organisers of the Forest Fest music and arts festival due to take place in Co Laois later this month has been resolved.
The failure to obtain a licence in respect of the Forest Fest event, IMRO claimed, amounted to a breach of its member’s copyright. The organisation had sought an injunction restraining the defendants and anyone who has notice of the order, from performing, playing or broadcasting musical works which it says it owns the copyright to at the event.
It alleged that the organisers had failed to obtain a required licence from it which would allow those works to be performed.
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